It seems to drive me insane when I ask fundamentalist Christians why there is such evil commanded by their God in the Bible and a blank stare comes over their face and the answer with, "I don't know but God is always Good" or "His ways are above ours and you must have faith."Can't they see the wickedness of such evil all commanded in the name of God?

Chuck O’Conner,Winston is correct about Long. He is not an in the field he is commenting on. His view is pretty meaningless. Now of course reading a book like “The Christian Delusion” one must watch out for biases of the authors. Even when reading a passage written by an expert one must be cautious about the author’s bias. As an old saying goes don’t believe everything you read.

Bud,Saying that one has biases is not an attack. When I said that his view was meaningless I was not talking about him. I was talking about reading why should I read someone’s opinion when that person really has no more knowledge about what he is talking about than I do. So I may be guilty of rushing to a wrong conclusion but I am not guilty of ad hominem. We all are bias and I have little time for books about Christian delusion when I do not believe that Christians are any more delusional than atheist.